New Releases

NEW EXCLUSIVE SUPER LTD. edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
KILLER, KILLER 100% Nu Yorican LATIN FUNK masterpiece just landed! Alongside 'Latin Strut' (also available on a ltd. edition 7") this is the toughest latin/funk tunes… Read more

NEW EXCLUSIVE SUPER LTD. edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
KILLER, KILLER 100% Nu Yorican LATIN FUNK masterpiece just landed! Alongside 'Latin Strut' (also available on a ltd. edition 7") this is the toughest latin/funk tunes… Read more

"Hieroglyphic Being translates five years of experimentation into his best LP to date" Vinyl Factory
"Album of the week" BLEEP
"Chicago dance music hero Hieroglyphic Being releases one of the strongest albums of his incredible career" Pop Matters
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Stunning… Read more

STUDIO ONE DUBPLATE #7Brentford All Stars - The World Is A GhettoSoul Jazz Records

SORRY SOLD OUT!UNBELIEVABLE! The Brentford All Stars bring us this deep, deep hypnotic 70s reggae/disco cut - A wicked take on the Loft classic - WAR's THE WORLD IS A GHETTO! Definitely one of the most exciting newly found gems deep in the Studio One vaults - an instant crossover bomb tune!
Will sell… Read more

VERY, VERY LIMITED 250 copies only!
Hieroglyphic Being throws down a massive new v.ltd. 12” from his current new album ‘The Red Notes’ on Soul Jazz Records. This EXCLUSIVE 12” includes BLACK FM - new track NOT on the album!!
Like post-house basement Chicago traxx meets Rhythim is Rhythim's… Read more

Brand new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ Brasil album recorded in Rio de Janeiro in 1994 with a host of legendary Brazilian musicians including Sivuca, Raul de Souza and singer Joyce Moreno – which has remained one of the key defining early releases from the record label. Out-of-print for over 20… Read more

This latest instalment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups, including Neu!, Cluster, Popol Vuh,… Read more

Soul Jazz Records are releasing this new 10th anniversary 2017 edition of their classic album ‘Dancehall – The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture’. This long-out-of-print collection is now available as a triple-vinyl edition and double CD pack.
The album is a lightning-flash collection… Read more

While the righteousness of blackness is at the heart of the Rastafarian faith, this collection illustrates how black pride remained a central theme, if not the defining essence, at the very core of all the music created at Studio One Records.Black Man’s Pride is the striking new Studio One collection… Read more

Comes with free poster when you buy direct from us here only!New 10th anniversary edition on Soul Jazz Books/Soul Jazz Records of this now classic large format deluxe book - the definitive photography book and essential guide to Jamaican Dancehall in the 1980s featuring 100s and 100s of amazing photographs… Read more

By the 1970s Studio One and Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already proved himself to be the defining force in Reggae for almost two decades. From running the Downbeat sound system on the lawns and yards of Kingston in the late 1950s to opening Studio One at 13 Brentford Road at the start of the 1960s,… Read more

Soul of A NationAfro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power: Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots of Rap 1964-79Soul Jazz Records

This album is released this week to coincide with the massive new exhibition Soul of A Nation - Art in the Age of Black Power now on at Tate Modern, London until Oct 2017.
For more information on the TATE MODERN exhibition go here
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NEW PLEXI-BOUND EDITION! + LIMTED EDITION FREE LARGE POSTER ONLY WHEN YOU BUY DIRECT FROM US!
This new edition is released to coincide with the new Soul of A Nation - Art In The Age of Black Power exhibition at Tate Modern (and… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD. first edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
Alive's massive jazz dance/ latin/brazilian bomb 'Skindo Le Le' originally featured on Soul Jazz Records' London Jazz Classics.
A… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
MASSIVE drum breaks and heavyweight MIAMI FEMALE FUNK. YVONNE FAIR was one of the earliest James Brown vocalists. This is the only release… Read more

Soul Jazz Records’ new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. All of… Read more

Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
KILLER NEW ORLEANS FUNK PARTY BOMB!!
One of the rarest of all New Orleans Funk singles issued here in exact repro artwork. The SEMINAL Dap Walk plus the mega-rare HEAVY B-side - hardcore!
THIS 7-inch can ONLY be bought… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD. first edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.ABSOLUTELY SEMINAL SOUL DISCO RARITY produced by the legendary PATRICK ADAMS. New York vocal quartet consisting of Dornell… Read more

Soul Jazz Records’ new Boombox 2 is a new selection of early rap music from the period 1979-83, with barely a household name in sight. Featured here are some the earliest hip-hop records that came out of New York City following the enormous commercial success of the first ever rap record, ‘Rapper’s… Read more

The SkatalitesIndependence Ska and The Far East Sound - Original Ska Sounds From The Skatalites 1963 - 65Soul Jazz Records

Fantastic new collection of rare and classic killer ska from the legendary Skatalites, one of the most important groups in the history of Reggae.This album was first released only as a limited-edition collectors 7-inch box set (now deleted) and is now available for the first… Read more

New edition of this very rare deep spiritual jazz album, the debut release from flautist Lloyd McNeill released on his private-press Asha Record label and recorded in Washington, DC in 1969 (originally only 500 copies were ever made). First reissued on Soul… Read more

SORRY SOLD OUT!
NEW LTD. first edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
Unbelievably rare early modern soulful disco boogie rap 45 single - this is a bomb tune! Currently one original… Read more